hubie writes:Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth's continents:
upstart writes:The director of the Korean research centre said the 2020 experiment marked an 'important turning point' in making commercial nuclear fusion reactors:
upstart writes:The EU publishes draft regulations on smartphone spare parts and battery life, including requiring that manufacturers supply 15+ parts for at least five years:
Appalbarry wrote in with a submission which became:Several years ago I read about and applied to join a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for something bad that they did. I didn't honestly remember just what they were accused of doing, but lo and behold my cheque arrived today! $128 Canadian (97.17 United States Dollar).The page describing the suit says:
Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:Pneumocell, a company specializing in inflatable structures, submitted a study to the European Space Agency laying out the concept for an inflatable lunar habitat.
upstart writes:Brain electrodes designed to mimic the hippocampus appear to boost the encoding of memories—and are twice as effective in people with poor memory:
An Anonymous Coward writes:NASA issued a Request For Information (RFI) "to assess industry's capability to design, develop, manufacture, launch, and provide the on-orbit operation to enable a controlled re-entry and the safe deorbit [of] the ISS." The general plan lays out possible steps in the deorbit process, ending with "the final reentry burn resulting in a controlled reentry of the ISS within a pre-defined, uninhabited entry corridor." The RFI and its attached presentation slides are very interesting reading, even if you're not preparing for an eventual proposal.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
An Anonymous Coward writes:Microsoft Defender falsely detects Win32/Hive.ZY in Google Chrome, Electron appsA recent bug in security intelligence updates for Microsoft Defender is causing it to incorrectly detect Chrome-based browsers and other Electron-based apps as potential malware. Microsoft Edge and other such apps are flagged as suspicious, reporting the threat as Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY. The issue seems to be resolved when upgrading to version 1.373.1537.0 of the security intelligence updates, and the changelog reports an update to the threat detection for Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY. After updating Microsoft Defender's security intelligence, the false positive disappears, and no further action is needed.The false positive appears to be linked to detecting behaviors that would indicate the presence of Hive ransomware. It's obviously a good thing to detect Hive ransomware and block it, but this panicked many users over the weekend whose computers warned them upon opening many trusted applications. Details are scarce as to what went wrong in the Microsoft Defender definitions and how the false positive occurred, but the issue seems to have been resolved with the latest definitions.Although Microsoft Edge does not contain the Hive ransomware, some users might suggest that Edge was correctly identified as malware, and that the rest of Windows should have been flagged as well.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.